Jennie Garth Makes Debut As Coupon Blogger

Jennie Garth is on top of the world! The single mom – who celebrated her 41st birthday on April 3 – shared a photo taken by her 31-year-old musician boyfriend Jeremy Salkin. She wrote: “I made it to the top! Thanks @jewunit for taking me on my first ‘real’ hike #iheartboulder”

Garth is now writing a column for The Real Deal on the coupon site Retailmenot.com. She reveals her life is different from her role of playing Kelly Taylor on Beverly Hills 90210.

She writes: “I’m nothing like Kelly Taylor. In fact, Beverly Hills is not my scene at all. Yes, I live in L.A. but I don’t live in a mansion with a cook and a butler.”

The actress also reveals her life growing up in a small town in Illinois.

“My upbringing certainly influenced my relationship with money, as everyone’s does. We grew much of our own food, and I can still remember flipping through the tattered pages of my mom’s favorite cookbook, about feeding a family on $12 a week.”

She added she’s “trying to juggle everything: my kids, my career, and if I’m lucky, some sort of personal life.”

The mom to Luca, 15, Lola, 10, and Fiona, 6, continues, “Every day, I get up and make breakfast for my girls. I sit on the rug during story time at my daughter’s school; I make costumes for the first grade play; I contribute to potlucks. Every minute is precious, and now more than ever, every dollar I bring home, or manage to save, means more safety and security for my family and our future.”

She is not a single parent, she is a single co-parent. She has an ex-husband’s child support, and her ex-husband takes the kids meaning she gets a break. A TRUE single parent NEVER gets a break and has to make money on their own. I wish society would wake up!

Anonymous9

Totally agree. It’s an unfortunate expression that lumps people together whose lives don’t really resemble each others at all, and is a real insult to Dad’s who pay support and see their kids on a regular schedule. Jennie is a single woman; she is not a single parent. Those kids have two and they see them both all the time.

Anonymous9

Apparently she’s run out of actual career opportunities if she’s sharing coupon duty with Kate Gosselin.